Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
48 points by wanick 4 hours ago | 18 comments

nephihaha 32 seconds ago
Quite incredible how much manmade crap there is up there, and much of it probably useless.
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wanick 4 hours ago
Author here. It's a browser view of the Solar System at real scale, with its current state, plus the objects around Earth from the CelesTrak catalog.

Data: CelesTrak TLEs (SGP4), asteroids and comets from JPL SBDB, spacecraft positions from JPL Horizons. Updated daily.

Rendering is WebGL2, orbit propagation runs in web workers. The asteroid set (~30 MB) loads in the background.

The time slider runs forwards and backwards; satellites appear and disappear by launch date.

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____tom____ 26 minutes ago
> It's a browser view of the Solar System at real scale

Is it really? I don't think you could see the satellites, if they weren't drawn at 1000x scale. I am wrong?

At real scale, i would expect to not see anything.

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boxed 42 minutes ago
A way to zoom that is faster than mouse wheel would be nice. Takes forever to zoom out a long way!
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Oarch 40 minutes ago
Being able to zoom on mobile at all would be great. And a way to close all of the overlay panels!
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nugzbunny 41 minutes ago
This is amazing. Well done. How long did it take to make?
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fnordprefect 26 minutes ago
Seconded. Great work.
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1shooner 32 minutes ago
Almost 1 in 3 tracked spacecraft is Starlink, is that accurate?
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Sayrus 14 minutes ago
Even more than that. Of the 35k tracked "Satellites and spacecraft", more than 12k are debris bringing Starlink to 1 in 2. If you look only at Active known satellites, around 2 in 3.

From Starlink's page on Wikipedia: "Starlink accounts for approximately 75% of all active maneuverable satellites in Earth orbit"

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gus_massa 10 minutes ago
Probably correct. Random link from 2023 (~50%) https://www.springco.co.uk/what-do-satellite-constellations-...
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eutropia 2 hours ago
What's with those giant blobs of asteroids offset in jupiter's orbit by like 60deg on either side?
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einpoklum 2 hours ago
Wow, speedy and convenient! Well done!

Some insights:

* There is sooo much space debris! Dead sattelites and rocket bodies

* Starlink put up a hell of lot of satellites, too.

* There is a pretty dense sphere of items around the earth at geo-stationary orbit, a bit like a mantle; but most of all in a circle on that sphere.

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dylan604 23 minutes ago
Everyone talks about the ringed planets, but I've never seen Earth mentioned of having a ring. I've also never seen mentioned that the rings were not man made as a qualifier. Yet, there it is, very clearly visible when zoomed out.

One of the things that I noticed was how far away Parker was from the sun. I know it has a crazy orbit, but seeing it at a scale reference just emphasizes how its orbit is complicated.

Also, checking out the platforms around L2. Euclid and JWST are no where near each other which again, just emphasizes how much space there is in...space.

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VladDanGeorgesc 2 hours ago
Very interesting!
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Musigsal 19 minutes ago
Cope, Earth is flat
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java-man 4 hours ago
Super! Not easy to select or center on a planet though.
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jairofdez 4 hours ago
great project!!!!
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